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The Karel Dobbelaere lecture

Divergent global roads to secularization and religious pluralism

Bibliographic Data

ID18979201
AuthorsJosé Casanova (0000-0001-5120-2057, Georgetown University, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume65
Issue2
Pages187-198
Publication date2018-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-7686 • E-ISSN: 1461-7404
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0037768618767961
OpenAlexW2807677284
LanguageEN
Citations received24
References cited28

This article analyzes the two divergent, though intertwined, roads of European secularization and global religious pluralism. In continental Western Europe, modernization and urbanization were accompanied by drastic secularization with limited religious pluralism. By contrast, in much of the rest of the world, in the Americas, North and South, throughout Asia and the Pacific and in Sub-Saharan Africa, modernization and urbanization have led to religious pluralism with limited secularization. In our contemporary global secular age, the parallel religious and secular dynamics are becoming ever more intertwined and interrelated

Economic growth · Economics · Epistemology · Karel · Modernization theory · Pluralism · Political economy · Political science · Religious pluralism · Secularity · Secularization · Sociology · Urbanization · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious Education and Schools

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Citations per year3
Citation span2018 - 2026 (9)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 24

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